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Renaissance. The Dictator and Consul Julius Caesar (100-44 BC). Uniface Oval Cast Bronze Plaquette,
after the Antique, 17
th
Century, 51mm x 40mm, 63.1g. Laureate and draped bust right, lituus behind, reverse
incised “Julius”. Very fine.
$ 250
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Renaissance. The Emperor Galba (3 BC - AD 69; Emperor 68-69). Uniface Oval Cast Bronze Plaquette,
after the Antique, 17
th
Century, 54.5 mm x 45.5 mm, 36.6g. Laureate and draped bust right, name
stamped below, ‘GALBA’. (cf Bekker (Leipzig) 204-206, for others of Claudius, Nero and Vitellius).
Very fine.
$ 250
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Renaissance. The Emperor Otho (AD 32-69; Emperor 15 January to 15 April 69). Cast Bronze Roundel,
16
th
to 17
th
Century. Set into a cast brass frame with integral suspension loop, total diameter 72.5mm
(roundel alone 55mm), 118.4g, from a series of Roman Emperors. Laureate bust right, OTONE below,
plain reverse. Very fine.
$ 350
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Renaissance. Allesandro de ‘Medici, (1510-1531-1537). Cast Bronze Portrait Medal, 36 mm, 25.6g, by
Domenico di Polo de’ Vetri. Armoured bust right, ALEx M FLO-RENTIAE DVX PRIMVS. Rev.
Margaret of Austria (and Parma) (1522-1586), her bust left, seemingly signed P below bust, MARGARITA
AVSTRIA (Att 771 obv, 932 rev). Very fine.
$ 350
from the collection of medals formed by William Victor Royle Baldwin (known as Roy or Uncle Roy), one of A H Baldwin & Sons
Ltd founder’s three sons, he was born in 1893
A curious ‘mule’, uniting husband and wife (married 1533-1537). It is normally found on the reverse of a medal of Ottavio Farnese,
her first husbaundated. She was Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582.
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